After all, this was a group of business people, why would Flippy’s team know business people?
I did feel for them a bit when I saw their handouts on the tables. Word on the grapevine is that they’ve been having a hard time raising money for their campaign. It must be true, because their handouts are embarrassing.
The handout was printed on flimsy office paper that you could see through and the disclosure reads “Printed in House, Labor donated.” Hey, I’m all for volunteer efforts in a campaign, but how are those union printing houses going to feel about the Democrats cutting them out? Didn’t they get the memo from Pallone and Rush? Democratic volunteers get paid $10 per hour.
I stopped feeling sorry for them when I read the content of their piece.
Their priorities.
* Cut waste. Eric, John and Janice will slash inflated county government department budgets.
This is why he’s called Flippy.
Freeholder D’Amico came into office advocating the building of a new court house. He blocked the closure of the Youth Detention Center in the year the Democrats had the majority and he voted against the closure this year when the Republicans closed it, saving taxpayers $2.5 million per year. Cut government?! Please these are Democrats. In the one year Flippy and the Democrats had power, they tried to increase the size of county government by creating an new level of bureaucracy, an Inspector General, and former State Democratic Chairman Joe Cryan was recruiting Democrats from Union County to come and take six figure jobs in Monmouth. Now they say they are going to govern like Chris Christie?
Well, not quite. Check out their next priority:
Spur job creation: Utilizing federal stimulus funds, our team will promote economic development by addressing critical road, bridge and mass transit needs.
How are Freeholders and a Sheriff going to allocate federal stimulus funds?! What if there isn’t federal stimulus funds next year? If there is another federal stimulus package next year it means the economy is still in the tank and Phoney Palloney and Rush and still in congress. Heaven forbid! It also means that Chinese will become the second language of choice taught in our schools.
I think this priority translates as a message to the trade unions: “Please give us money to fund our campaign. We’ll get you all the prevailing wage jobs that we can, really, we will.”
Environmental protection. Brophy, D’Amico and Venables oppose off-shore drilling and will reduce congestion and pollution through infrastructure investment.
Huh? What authority does a Sheriff or a Freeholder have over off-shore drilling? New infrastructure will increase congestion. Been to Middlesex, Union or Bergen Counties lately? How is building new roads going to reduce pollution?
Open, honest government. Our team will appoint an all-volunteer ethics board of citizens to ensure integrity in government and to make it transparent.
Does that mean we can’t trust you if we elect you? If you’re trustworthy, what do we need an ethics board for?
How are volunteers going to make paid staffers be transparent? I see costs for attorneys creeping into this all volunteer witch hunt.
That’s just one side of the embarrassing piece. Later in the week I’ll ridicule the other side.
On Friday, Congressman Frank Pallone issued a press release stating that the committee that he chairs, the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee, will hold hearings to do a thorough review of why health insurance premiums are increasing by double digits. 25%-35% in some cases.
Pallone better check in with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius before he issues any subpoenas to health insurance company executives. Sebelius issued an stern warning to insurers on September 9th, threatening them with being cut off from the new government-run health insurances exchanges that are scheduled to begin under Obama Pallone Care in 2014, and preventing citizens from being able to use government subsidies to buy insurance from companies who are telling their customers that the increases are do in part to Obama PalloneCare.
If Pallone puts health insurance company executives under oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, will he also grant them immunity from Sebelius’ threats if they tell the truth about how Obama PalloneCare is contributing to the increase in health insurance costs?
Congressman Frank Pallone said he “feels vindicated” by the Gulf oil spill, because for years he has been arguing that the technology doesn’t exists for save drilling. In his next breath he said there are already plans for new drilling rigs in even “twice as deep” that those of the incident in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deep Water Horizon.
Far from feeling vindicated, Pallone should be hanging his head in shame for his failure as a senior member of the congressional committee with over sight of the Minerals Management Services, whose corruption and failure to properly inspect the Deep Water Horizon and other rigs lead to the disaster in the Gulf.
Phoney Palloney has NOT consistently opposed deep water off-shore drilling. He voted for the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act of 1995, which authorized deep water drilling,twice before he voted against it and before President Clinton signed the bill into law.
Senate Candidate Sharron Angle to campaign and fundraise with Anna Little
Highlands, NJ – 9/14/10 – Mutually reinforcing their respective campaigns against two of the most liberal progressives in Congress assembled, Senate Candidate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, will join House Candidate Anna Little for a morning tea and afternoon lunch on Wednesday, September 15th in Red Bank and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, respectively.
Angle, locked in a dead heat with Harry Reid at 48% according to the most recent Rasmussen poll, won the Republican nomination for Senate in a three-way race on June 8th against opponents who had both greater name recognition and more money. Similarly, Little won the 6th District Republican nomination against an opponent with the party backing in all four 6th District counties and with a significant funding advantage. Both Angle and Little pulled off their upsets in large part because of tea party support.
Like Angle, Anna Little recognizes that the tax-and-spend-and-spend-and-tax philosophy of Harry Reid and Frank Pallone is almost solely responsible for our stagnant, high unemployment and exploding national debt. Both women are committed to restoring necessary fiscal sanity to Washington through lower taxes, less spending and smaller Government.
MMM has received reports from readers in both CD-6 and CD-12 that they were polled by the Pallone and Holt campaigns this weekend.
Not surprisingly, Pallone plans to divert voters attention away from the economy and the health care bill that he was so proud of just a year ago.
Pallone is preparing negative ads depicting Anna Little as a career politician and right wing extremists. He will attempt to make the election campaign about guns, including bullet proof vest piercing armour, stem cell research, abortion, and oil drilling. He will depict Little as a tax raising mayor who would raise taxes on the middle class.
Holt is planning to stick with the economy, which he will blame entirely on Scott Sipprelle. At least they’re not blaming Bush any longer.
I want you to take every word on this page very personally and very seriously; because what I am about to report to you, if left unaddressed, will leave a lasting scar on your legacy that will take you, your family and our Republic years and perhaps a generation to recover from.
Fair elections are the backbone of a representative democracy. We have fought wars to ensure them. So what exactly do you call a politician that rigs the rules of an election, a sacred process that is supposed to be fair, honest and open, so that just by writing a new law, a law free of a timely judicial review, he greatly increases his party’s chances of victory? You would call that person an unscrupulous cheater and a scoundrel and that is exactly what Democrat Congressman Frank Pallone and his cohorts in Congress are.
In fact, he is so replete with deceptive convolution that I’m not sure Frank Pallone knows what is truthful and just anymore. He is so thoroughly corrupted by the temptations of the backroom dealings of Washington DC that I doubt that Mr. Pallone would recognize the truth or the honorable thing to do if the truthful answers to the simplest questionnaire we’re force-fed to him during a polygraph test.
Democrat Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. is cosponsor of H.R. 5175, the “Democracy is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections Act” (aka DISCLOSE). The law is a full frontal assault on free political speech. DISCLOSE has a benevolent sounding name that would seemingly shed light on who or what entity is sponsoring a given political ad. Its supporters say that it prohibits foreign influence in elections; however, what this corruptive law actually does is limit the free political speech of the majority of the American electorate, by deciding along political and ideological lines who does and who does not get to participate in the electoral process. It is just one of many steps that Democrats have taken to further segregate voters, thereby creating an imbalance of liberty and power.
In January 2010 the US Supreme Court in Citizen’s United v. FEC overturned the prohibition on campaign spending by corporations and unions that had been imposed under McCain-Feingold. DISCLOSE seeks to reimpose the restrictions on corporations only, while rewarding unions with an explicit exemption. Unions and their members would have free political speech, while privately held corporations and their shareholders would not.
On June 24th 2010 DISCLOSURE passed the Democrat controlled Congress. The Senate is due to vote on DISCLOSURE after September 13th. If it passes the Senate and is then signed by Obama, unions and their affiliates will be able to support political candidates on the airwaves and in print media without any counterbalance or opposing viewpoints. As a result, unions like the SEIU and the AFL-CIO are preparing their offensive on behalf of Democrat candidates that have supported their high-priced agenda, which is government-managed health care and a government bailout of union pensions.
The language in DISCLOSE, which Pallone endorses, prohibits any corporation doing over $10 million in business with the federal government from political spending and communication. So while all-American corporations like Pepsi would be prohibited from funding political ads, public employee unions, government grants recipients and foreign influenced labor unions, with similar ties to the government, would be able to spend freely on political speech and political advertisements.
If Frank Pallone, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama win their battle against free speech through DISCLOSURE, it will remain the law of the land until after the presidential elections in 2012, because of the way the law is drafted. Forced jurisdictional requirements and the deliberate absence of a timely judicial review process demonstrates that Democrats have one thing in mind, and that is to disenfranchise voters, to rig elections and to limit free speech so that they might hold onto the power that the American electorate is all too eager to deprive them of having.
Frank Pallone has proven that he is willing to trash the Constitution and manipulate the law to guarantee that his Democrat party wins the next two elections. The repercussions of his tyranny will last for many years to come and he must be confronted. Call your Senator today and tell them not to vote on DISCLOSURE and then support Anna Little for Congress.
After seriously reviewing Frank Pallone’s voting record on important issues, it is alarming to me as it should be to all the voters in Congressional District 6 just how out of control Pallone is when it comes to tax reform! He has consistently voted “NO” on tax issues that would help create prosperity for Americans. Let me provide several examples. In December of 2005, Pallone voted NO to retain reduced taxes on capital gains and dividends, in May of 2004, he voted NO on making permanent an increase in the child tax credit, in April, 2004, he voted NO on permanently eliminating the marriage penalty, April, 2002, he voted NO on making the Bush tax cuts permanent, April, 2001, he voted NO on eliminating the Estate Tax (death tax), and the list goes on!
Frank’s voting record indicates that he is a “Big Spender” on tax votes!
The voters of CD6 must put an end to Pallone’s out of control spending!
Come November we must show Frank we are fed up with this robbery! We want the candidate who promises to reduce taxes, her name is Anna Little. Anna promotes an immediate reduction in all taxes. She believes income taxes punish success and discourages investment.
On November 2nd, we can make our voices heard and show Pallone that we vote NO to everything he stands for by electing Anna Little for Congress!
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